[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

Thu Aug 5 14:24:42 UTC 2010
Frank Thommen <frank.thommen at embl-heidelberg.de>

James Pearson wrote:
> Frank Thommen wrote:
> 
>> I'm experiencing similar problems on a DELL Optiplex 740 with the same 
>> CPU (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ @ 2.60 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 80 
>> GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 HD).  But in my case the slowness is not 
>> restricted to OO, but the whole systems is slowed down.  Even simple 
>> actions (e.g. starting a Gnome Console) bring the load up to over 2. 
>> Right after booting, the load is usually over 2, sometimes even up to 4. 
> 
> Can you post the output of lspci and lsmod ?


sorry, forgot to copy-paste these in my original post:

[root at shelley ~]# uname -a
Linux shelley 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jul 1 19:04:48 EDT 2010 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root at shelley ~]# lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller 
(rev a1)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller 
(rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio 
(rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Miscellaneous Control
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43GL [Quadro FX 
550] (rev a2)
[root at shelley ~]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
autofs4                63049  11
hidp                   83521  2
rfcomm                104681  0
l2cap                  89281  10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth             118853  5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
lockd                 101553  0
sunrpc                199945  2 lockd
ip_conntrack_netbios_ns    36033  0
ipt_REJECT             38977  1
xt_state               35265  2
ip_conntrack           91621  2 ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,xt_state
nfnetlink              40457  1 ip_conntrack
iptable_filter         36161  1
ip_tables              55201  1 iptable_filter
ip6t_REJECT            38849  1
xt_tcpudp              36289  10
ip6table_filter        36033  1
ip6_tables             50049  1 ip6table_filter
x_tables               50505  6 
ipt_REJECT,xt_state,ip_tables,ip6t_REJECT,xt_tcpudp,ip6_tables
ipv6                  435489  23 ip6t_REJECT
xfrm_nalgo             43333  1 ipv6
crypto_api             42945  1 xfrm_nalgo
cpufreq_ondemand       42449  1
powernow_k8            56025  1
freq_table             38977  2 cpufreq_ondemand,powernow_k8
dm_multipath           56921  0
scsi_dh                42177  1 dm_multipath
video                  53197  0
backlight              39873  1 video
sbs                    49921  0
power_meter            47053  0
i2c_ec                 38593  1 sbs
dell_wmi               37601  0
wmi                    41985  1 dell_wmi
button                 40545  0
battery                43849  0
asus_acpi              50917  0
acpi_memhotplug        40516  0
ac                     38729  0
lp                     47121  0
joydev                 43969  0
snd_hda_intel         639265  0
snd_seq_dummy          37061  0
snd_seq_oss            65473  0
snd_seq_midi_event     41025  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                87777  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         41557  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            77377  0
snd_mixer_oss          49985  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm               116681  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              57161  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         44113  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
sr_mod                 50789  0
snd_hwdep              43593  1 snd_hda_intel
cdrom                  68713  1 sr_mod
k8_edac                50693  0
k8temp                 39105  0
snd                   100073  9 
snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
floppy                 95464  0
hwmon                  36553  2 power_meter,k8temp
edac_mc                60193  1 k8_edac
i2c_nforce2            41025  0
soundcore              41825  1 snd
shpchp                 70893  0
tg3                   160841  0
i2c_core               56641  2 i2c_ec,i2c_nforce2
pcspkr                 36289  0
sg                     70377  0
parport_pc             62313  1
parport                73165  2 lp,parport_pc
dm_raid45              99657  0
dm_message             36289  1 dm_raid45
dm_region_hash         46145  1 dm_raid45
dm_mem_cache           38977  1 dm_raid45
dm_snapshot            52233  0
dm_zero                35265  0
dm_mirror              54737  0
dm_log                 44993  3 dm_raid45,dm_region_hash,dm_mirror
dm_mod                101649  11 
dm_multipath,dm_raid45,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror,dm_log
sata_nv                62025  2
libata                209489  1 sata_nv
sd_mod                 56513  3
scsi_mod              196953  5 scsi_dh,sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod
ext3                  168913  2
jbd                    94769  1 ext3
uhci_hcd               57433  0
ohci_hcd               56309  0
ehci_hcd               66125  0
[root at shelley ~]#



frank


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